SRELS Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue: 2

Impact factor and cost of scientific articles: a study on their relationship

  • Author:
  • G Unnikrishnan, R.V. Jayanthi1, M. Chandrashekara2
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 123 to 130

1RA, ITC R&D Centre, I-Phase, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA, 560058, INDIA.

2Dept. of Lib & Info Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570006, INDIA. E-mail: mc@lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in

*E-mail: rv.jayanthi@itc.in

**E-mail: unnikrishnan.g@itc.in

Abstract

The impact factor of a scientific journal is a statistical tool to measure the number of times an author from the journal is cited by other authors. This is therefore, of great interest and importance to scientists, journal editors, authors and publishers. The escalating subscription costs and the obvious need of scientists to rely/refer journals with articles most cited, has given rise to this study

Keywords

Impact Factor (IF), Document Delivery Service (DDS)